Sean “Diddy” Combs’ houses in Los Angeles and Miami have been raided by Homeland Safety Investigations brokers and different regulation enforcement officers because of a attainable ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation, U.S. officers confirmed Monday.
“Earlier right now, Homeland Safety Investigations (HSI) New York executed regulation enforcement actions as a part of an ongoing investigation, with help from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our native regulation enforcement companions,” HSI mentioned in a press release. “We’ll present additional info because it turns into obtainable.”
Investigators had been nonetheless at Combs’ Miami Seashore dwelling late into the night, CBS Miami reported. Combs was not on the Miami Seashore location through the search.
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Combs has confronted a number of sexual assault allegations in current months.
Two ladies accused the music mogul of sexual abuse in November final yr, one week after he settled a separate lawsuit with the singer Cassie that contained allegations of rape and bodily abuse. The ladies’s lawsuits had been filed on the eve of the expiration of the Grownup Survivors Act, a New York regulation allowing victims of sexual abuse a one-year window to file civil motion whatever the statute of limitations.
“We’ll at all times assist regulation enforcement when it seeks to prosecute people who have violated the regulation,” Douglas Wigdor, a lawyer for Cassie, mentioned in response to Monday’s raids. “Hopefully, that is the start of a course of that may maintain Mr. Combs accountable for his wicked conduct.”
One other lady in December 2023 accused Combs and two different males of gang raping her in 2003 when she was 17 years outdated, in response to civil courtroom paperwork filed in United States District Courtroom Southern District of New York. The lady’s lawsuit was filed below New York Metropolis’s gender-motivated violence safety regulation.
Final month, a male music producer filed a lawsuit claiming Combs sexually assaulted him and compelled him to have intercourse with prostitutes.
—Nicole Sganga and Pat Milton contributed reporting.
